Re: Python 3.6 retirement

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 15:01, Julien Savard <juliensavard17%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> So
> @Adam
> I sent you the files you requested to your personal email (outside mailing
> list)
>
> @Jonathan :
> I put the flags in my mk.conf. Unfortunately it changed nothing.
>
>
> @Chavdar
> Good thing to see Python 3.10 working on Solaris 10 x86_64. However I've
> seens cases where something works on x86_64  but not on sparc64. We'll have
> to keep that in mind.

Sure, but as the fix is trivial and consists of just declaring
sethostname as extern it is unlikely there would be any difference to
the build under sparc64.

I can try building Python 3.[789] on the same setup if this would be useful.

>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 3:46 PM Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > With the (obvious, and obviously wrong this way) patch
> > ...
> >
> > ---
> > /export/home/tmp/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.0/Modules/socketmodule.c.ORIG
> >      Wed Oct 13 20:28:22 2021
> > +++
> > /export/home/tmp/lang/python310/work/Python-3.10.0/Modules/socketmodule.c
> >   Wed Oct 13 20:28:43 2021
> > @@ -5440,10 +5440,7 @@
> >      Py_buffer buf;
> >      int res, flag = 0;
> >
> > -#ifdef _AIX
> > -/* issue #18259, not declared in any useful header file */
> >  extern int sethostname(const char *, size_t);
> > -#endif
> >
> >      if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "S:sethostname", &hnobj)) {
> >          PyErr_Clear();
> >
> > ...
> >
> > python3.10 builds and works under Solaris10 update 11 as downloaded
> > today from Oracle. The compiler in use was gcc5 from OpenCSW. On the
> > way of getting functional bootstrap I had to butcher a few other
> > packages (e.g. libuuid lacking errx - just took them off for now).
> >
> > Anyway:
> >
> > ➜  ~ uname -a
> > SunOS s10u11 5.10 Generic_147148-26 i86pc i386 i86pc
> > ➜  ~ python3.10
> > Python 3.10.0 (default, Oct 13 2021, 20:13:42) [GCC 5.5.0] on sunos5
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>> import sys
> > >>> print(sys.version)
> > 3.10.0 (default, Oct 13 2021, 20:13:42) [GCC 5.5.0]
> >
> > _crypt module doesn't build. I had to 'bmake print-PLIST > PLIST &&
> > bmake repackage' because of this and two other modules with fake in
> > their names - built but not importable.
> >
> > So there is some work to be done, but it is certainly better than
> > saying that only 3.6 is working under Solaris 10.
> >
> >
> > Chavdar
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 09:46, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > * On 2021-10-13 at 06:19 BST, Julien Savard wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >/var/tmp/pkgbuild/lang/python39/work/Python-3.9.7/Modules/socketmodule.c:5514:15:
> > > >error: implicit declaration of function 'sethostname'; did you mean
> > > >'gethostname'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > >
> > > This is the important bit, the rest is just noise.
> > >
> > > The interesting bit is that this code is only included if
> > > HAVE_SETHOSTNAME is declared, yet your compiler is saying it can't be
> > > found.  What's probably happening is that configure is using flags that
> > > enable the symbol visibility, but the build of the module itself is not



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